ASH 2025 - 2026

Hello and welcome to our class page for: 

Ash Class - Autumn Term 2025

Donella is the Class Teacher in Ash, supported by Rebecca, Danielle, Lucy, Magda, Adrian, Carlos and Chevelle, our wonderful Teaching Assistants who work across the three classes.

Special Breakfast happens each week on a Friday where we give our certificates to our Rights Respecting Superstars and find out which Duty bearers have earned an extra special mention too. During Special Breakfast, we all sit together and celebrate the achievements of others whilst eating a range of foods including pancakes, waffles, toast, fruit and yogurts.

We offer a healthy breakfast on arrival each morning when the children arrive to get the children settled and ready for the day ahead. During this session, the children complete Early Bird activities and also participate in a range of sensory activities.

Each morning, we have phonics sessions to build upon individual's knowledge of sounds in order to enable them to be fluent readers. We follow the Little Wandle phonics scheme. Our children are in different phonics groups, according to the sounds that they are working on. 

Please try and read with your child regularly either online using Renaissance or using a reading book if you have requested one to be sent home. If you would like your child's login details for Renaissance, then please do pop me a message and I will send this out to you. I can also share the login details for Purple Mash if your child would like to undertake activities at home. 

HOME & REMOTE LEARNING:

Pupils have been given their login details to access our school learning apps at home. Please contact your class team if you need the log in details to be re-sent.

• Myon -  https://www.myon.co.uk/login/index.html
• Purple Mash – https://www.purplemash.com/sch/bridgeleapupilre

Our Autumn 1 Learning:                                                                                                     

• ENGLISH: We will be focusing on the story and characters from I can Catch a Monster. We will be using the strategies from Talk for Writing to enhance writing, bringing to life their ideas and to enable all learners to see themselves as writers. We will be focusing on characters, using a range of features to describe. Using colourful semantics to focus on 'who', 'what' and 'where'. 
• We will have dialy phonics lessons, and will begin our journey into reading by sharing reading books with children, initially with pictures to develop oracy and comprehension skills. 
• In all our written work, we will be trying to apply the phonics that we have learnt.                                       
• MATHS: We will be focusing on Number, number names, knowing quantities, ordering numbers, using the vocabulary related to more/less, one to one correspondence, odd and even numbers, and sharing equally and identify and representing numbers with Numicon and Rekonreks. We will be looking at 2D and 3D shapes, using language of sides, edges, faces, corners and vertices. 
• PSHE: We will be focusing on the rights of the children, using Zones of Regulation to express feelings and emotions and developing relationships with everyone in our class. We will be using using the iMatters curriculumn units around Living in the Wider World this half term which will focus around rights, class rules, money and democracy. 
• Skills for Life: We will be focusing on the communication strand working on the steps to effective speaking and listening. In addition to communication we will be working on the skills required to build relationships, playing cooperatively, share equipemnt and in having safe bodies.
• Emma, our Art Teacher, will be with us for two sessions this half term spending time painting and in creating a school mural which involves all staff and children. 

We continually strive to promote positive behaviours and will give raffle tickets, celebratory certificates and have our weekly prize draw. If you would like any further information or would like to speak to a member of our team, please do not hesitate to contact us a call.